# Rohin Gopalakrishnan > Sr Software Engineer @ PayPal | Past - Founder, Founding Engineer (acquired) | AWS Certified Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/rohingopalakrishnan Software Engineer with 6+ years of backend & infrastructure focused full stack expertise, complimented by a robust entrepreneurial background. I’ve been known for consistently pushing boundaries in professional and personal pursuits. Thanks for your time and appreciate you dropping by! If you'd like to know more about me or just have a chat, please drop an email to rohinrohin@gmail.com Expertise: Backend Development, DevOps, Fullstack Development, Next.js/React, Java, Spring Boot, Python, HTML/CSS/JS, SQL, Kafka, Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, AWS/GCP, ELK, Prometheus, Grafana, Metabase ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ PayPal Jan 2025 – Present | San Jose, California, United States ### Software Engineer 2 @ PayPal Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | San Jose, California, United States ### Software Engineer (Founding Engineer) @ Delivery Collective Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | San Jose, California, United States Building delivery collective ### Software Engineer (Founding Engineer) @ Paraform Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco, California, United States Building paraform ### SDE @ PayPal Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | United States - Reduced latency in price change notifications to PayPal Crypto users by 3x, by caching user notification preferences using Java (Spring Boot) and raising relevant events to the queue to update the cache - Revamped developer guidelines and scripts to reduce the onboarding time from 4-7 days to less than 1 day ### Founder, CEO @ Neoscale Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Bengaluru, Karnataka, India - Founded a software company with a team of 15 engineers and mentored them to deliver impactful solutions to 10+ edtech, fintech, and health tech clients/startups. - Provided cloud infrastructure solutions, frontend & backend services, built mobile apps and counselled executives to make informed engineering decisions, interfaced with clients to recruit, train, and scale their engineering teams. Turnkey Projects: - Rearchitected and rewrote the entire software suite for an Indian crypto exchange (order matching, user, governance management, …) using Java/Springboot/React/SQS/Redis/MongoDB deployed on AWS stack from a monolithic .NET solution. - Designed & set up all core infrastructure and foundational micro-services to bootstrap edtech company crejo.fun. This multi-environment architecture was deployed using Terraform in AWS and Kubernetes and was written in Java using Micronaut. ### Software Engineer (Founding Enginner) @ Crio.Do Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Bangalore, India - As the second developer at Crio, I built and maintained this pioneering ed-tech platform's back-end, front-end, and infrastructure (Springboot/Python/Kafka/AWS/GCP/Python/K8s/React/SQL/MongoDB…). - Recruited and led a team of six developers to deliver multiple features spanning over 100+ APIs in Java for various services such as user, workspace, audit and so on; Implemented and institutionalised DevOps, Agile methodology practices - Over 10x reduction in user onboarding time by building an in-house developer workspace solution running VSCode pods in K8s cluster orchestrated using Kafka, AWS Lambda (Python), Springboot,… and images built using Packer. - Reduced $10K/mo. in cloud expenses by managing resource policies; built new infrastructure across dozen services and over a hundred servers; Drove the migration of the platform’s architecture from GCP to AWS. ### Software Developer Intern @ Crio.Do Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Bangalore, India ### Research Assistant @ Binghamton University Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Syracuse, New York Area - Built an edge computing infrastructure for IoT devices leveraging existing virtualization techniques (docker swarm & containers) and used RDMA to accelerate communication speed across this infrastructure. - Simulated this infrastructure on a Parrot AR Drone 2.0 running R.O.S (Robotic Operating System) to virtualize the drone firmware and split the core components into separate containers for fault tolerance and easy migration. ### Research Intern @ Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Mumbai, Maharashtra, India - Built a simulation model for an estimation based learning system using GSAP and Scalable Vectors. - Designed an interactive tracking module to gain insight of tool usage and assist in the analysis of learning estimation. ### R&D Intern @ Greenopia Technologies LLP Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Jaaga Startup - Debug the IOT element of the crowdfunded smart urban self watering garden by greenopia. One of my tasks was to fix the existing firmware issues with the product and refining the firmware logic of the particle photon. - Built an innovative product interaction tool using chat-bots and augmented reality leading to 40% increase in seasonal business growth. ### Joint Secretary @ Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | PES University, Bangalore On the Board Secretaries of the IET Student Chapter supporting the overall governance of the Institution towards fulfilling the mission to Engineer a better world. in personal capacity: - organized 6 hackathons and workshops - mentored 8 students to accelerate their career ### R&D Intern @ Appoids Tech Solutions Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Bangalore Worked on numerous radio technologies and protocols like the nRF24L01 2.4Ghz stack and the LoRa (Long range, low power radio). Implemented a self healing mesh networking protocol layer on the LoRa modem, for a proprietary product of the company with the electricity board of Karnataka, Kerala and various other states on a smart electric grid system. ### Web Developer Intern @ xFact, Inc. Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Bangalore Designing and implemented an MVC web-portal using J2EE frameworks like Spring and Hibernate. I had also used Angular on the front-end. ### R&D Engineer @ micrograce Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 - micrograce is an open R&D studio with operations in Bangalore, India and Leicester, UK. - I was tasked to build firmware for various projects at micrograce (notably - road condition monitoring system for Audi) ## Education ### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science San José State University ### Bachelor of Technology - BTech in Computer Science PES University ### High School in Computer Science AECS Magnolia Maaruti Public School ### High School National Public School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/rohinrohin - Portfolio: https://rohinrohin.com - GitHub: https://github.com/rohinrohin --- Source: https://flows.cv/rohingopalakrishnan JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/rohingopalakrishnan/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-31